RAID options under Fedora

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Seth Bardash wrote:

> These controllers survived the Virginia Hurricane at our ISP's
> site and endured 132 degree F ambient temps (their NOC lost
> cooling but not power) for 3 days without any failures as did the
> disk arrays.

with one HW component more, you get more chances of fails than
with SW raid ;-)

> 4) The driver source has been public domain and included in linux
> since kernel rev 2.2.15 - check your machine in the
> /lib/module/kernel/scsi directory for file 3w-xxxx.o - its
> there!!! You can easily update the driver to the latest kernel by
> downloading the source from the 3ware web site and following the
> directions. This allows you to upgrade the kernel as often as you
> like and then update the drivers if needed.

And what's about firmware and 3dm daemon ? Do you have *source* too?

> Check out the benchmark on our web site under storage for the
> actual numbers.

Did you make test LiNUX SW vs. 3ware HW raid?

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